Nominated 7/17/2007
5th Circuit
The litigation partner in Dallas office of Baker Botts is the only federal circuit court nominee to have a hearing so far in 2008. The ABA has rated Haynes “well-qualified” but liberal groups complain she has not fully disclosed her conservative views or shared copies of past writings.
The former assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division has been waiting the longest for a confirmation vote as a judicial nominee. Liberal critics admit he has “professional credentials” but have questioned whether court docket warrants an 11th seat.
Rosenstein, who has lived in Maryland since 1997, is not the preferred choice of Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin. They say the White House ignored their recommendations to pick someone “with deep roots in the Maryland legal community.”
